Identify the cousins in the first picture and connect them with the second visual. Answer: Daniel (David) Nathan, alias Frederic Dannay and Manford (Emanuel) Lepofsky, alias Manfred Bennington Lee wrote detective fiction under the name Ellery Queen. In a successful series of novels that covered forty-two years, Ellery Queen served as both author’s name and…
He delivered a stinging rebuke but it was interpreted as an expression of sunny positivism, repeated ad nauseam in several tourist guide type books. Identify this misquoted individual and explain. Donald Horne, who wrote the 1964 book “The Lucky Country”. Quoting Wikipedia – “The title comes from the opening words of the book’s last chapter:…
‘Man making a point’ was involved in a work which has gathered a fan following over the years. ‘Cartoon guy’ was inspired by this work to do something. For an additional clue, check out this mildly NSFW picture. Now, details please. Nicholas Ray, directed “Johnny Guitar”, in which the title character memorably observes “I am…
Winner worried. Resulting in what? Answer: Nobel Peace Prize winner Frank B. Kellogg, who served in the U.S. Senate and as U.S. Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Calvin Coolidge. His detractors started calling him “Nervous Nellie” because of his tendency to “hesitate and vaccilate.” The coinage has become a jab at people…
Two sets of pronouncements. In the olden days of the Internet, on certain channels of communication, what would be used to bookend such statements? Set 1: Whatever happens, the U.S. Navy is not going to be caught napping. Frank Knox, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, on December 4, 1941. With over 50 foreign cars already…
Connect. Dionne Warrick, Buddy Holley, Israel (Irving) Baline and William Falkner – all of them had their names misspelt by others and decided that the misspelling looked better and became Warwick, Holly, Berlin and Faulkner respectively. Cracked by Thomas Masun, who is also the QFI Chennai Super King for the week by virtue of answering…
Today’s question is from Vijay Sarathy. Whose statue is this? Answer: Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant noodles. (In this picture he can be seen holding up a pack of noodles and standing on a “cup o’ noodles” pack.) Cracked by five of you.
What? Answer: This is supposed to be a death mask of Napoleon. Cracked by six of you.
Today’s contributor – Srini, in his own words, used to bear the tag of a biz quizzer till corporate realignments forced him to retire. Now he has settled for being called a Kollywood buff, a reputation he maintains by watching sundry B movies and contributing generously to triviapettai.blogspot.com. Here is a question which is far removed…
This question is from a real veteran who, in his own words, predates QFI and misses out on all the fornightly action only because he is a senile old fool without any sense of what’s important. He does seem to remember a few things: Like the time in 1984 in Museum theatre when Ramanan went…
